chapter 23 part 2

Question 1

Home Owners Loan Corporation

Answer 1

Provided gov loans to homeowners who faced foreclosure.

Question 2

Federal Emergency Relief Administration

Answer 2

alleviating household unemployment by creating new unskilled jobs in local and state government. Jobs were more expensive than direct cash payments (called “the dole”)

Question 3

2nd Agricultural Adjustment Act

Answer 3

Loans given to farmers by commodity city corporation

Question 4

Resettlement Administration & Farm Security Administration

Answer 4

The Resettlement Administration loaned more than 1 billion to help tenant farmers become landholders and established camps for migrant farm workers, who had lived in housing. Farm Security Administration hired photographers of rural towns…

Question 5

Works Progress Administration

Answer 5

Set out to create as many jobs as possible. Workers built airports, roads , etc…..

Question 6

National Youth Administration

Answer 6

Ensured african-americans that they would be provided with job positions or job training.

Question 7

Wagner Act

Answer 7

One of the first reforms of the second new deal and was passage of the national labor relations act.

Question 8

Fair Labor Standards Act

Answer 8

Set standards of wages, hours, banned child labor, and ensured the right of workers to organize and bargain collectively with employers.

Question 9

National Labor Relations Board

Answer 9

provided the chance to hear testimony about unfair practices and to hold elections to find out if workers wanted union representation.

Question 10

Social Security Act

Answer 10

Provides old-age insurance, disability insurance, etc….

Question 11

Rural Electrification Administration

Answer 11

Financed and worked with electrical cooperatives to bring electricity to isolated areas.